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Vi Et Armis
East India
Beaufort 2015

7.3 / 10 234 Ratings

A perfume by Beaufort for women and men, released in 2015. The scent is smoky-spicy. Projection and longevity are above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Smoky

Spicy

Woody

Resinous

Leathery

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Black pepper

Black tea

Grapefruit

Cardamom

Heart Notes

Frankincense

Opium poppy

Red fruits Whisky

Whisky

Ylang-ylang

Base Notes

Birch

Tobacco

Amber

Atlas cedar Caramel

Caramel

Labdanum

Oud

Patchouli

Sandalwood

Perfumers

Julie Dunkley, Julie Marlowe

Ratings

Scent

7.3234 Ratings

Longevity

8.5201 Ratings

Sillage

8.4204 Ratings

Bottle

8.0181 Ratings

Value for money

7.189 Ratings

Submitted by Zionist, last update on 09/07/2025.

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Reviews

13 in-depth fragrance descriptions

07/25/2017

8
Scent

ScentFan
334 Reviews

ScentFan

Helpful Review 3

Unabashed Funk

Not sure everyone wants to go around smelling like East India, but if you do, this is the way. You can sense the quality here, beneath the fragrant funk--the rich tobacco and whiskey, forbidden opium, etc, the birch tar. Must be the oud lofting up the potent stench. I'd wear this if I were braver, but I'm not. I'll leave Vi Et Armis (force and arms) to the Genghis Khans among us, the Alexander the Greats, the Theodore Roosevelts, the Chaka Zulus, the Geronimos, the Hemingways. It's from Beaufort, the London perfume house founded by the somewhat darkly free-thinking Leo Crabtree, so I guess I'd best add Henry VIII to the list.

05/02/2025

blindy
38 Reviews

blindy

Helpful Review 2

Your opium tea is ready, sir

BeauFort is a niche house from London founded by the drummer of The Prodigy. Similar to their music, BeauFort has inherited their drop of madness and creates very dark and heavy fragrances, sending us back in time to the dark periods of history where the Strong has all the rights and the Weak had to obey.

Vi Et Armis takes us back in time when The East Indian Company established by the British Empire was alive and kicking. This perfume should be a tribute to the goods the Company was bringing home - Tea, Opium and a lot of Gunpowder.

The fragrance opens with a VERY harsh notes of smoked black tea (thanks to gunpowder I guess) and birch. Then, later on, I get the Islay Single Malt Whisky (something smoky like Ardbeg for example). Unfortunately (or fortunately I’d rather say) I don’t know how opium supposed to smell so can’t say anything about it.

If you want to smell like a Pirate or a Sailor - THATS IT YOU FOUND IT. Very pungent and straight to the nose scent. It is raw, wild and very masculine, one spray is enough to kill everyone in a 10 meter radius, be careful :)

Surprisingly enough I got complimented on that perfume once. I think in a right occasion with the right clothes (biker jacket, all black) it has an amazing effect, finishing your image.

12/18/2024

7
Pricing 9
Sillage 9
Longevity 5.5
Scent

Smirky
483 Reviews

Smirky

3

A true campfire fragrance

The initial black pepper is strong and makes the opening interesting. As it dried down, I did get an occasional boozy whiff along with a somewhat medicinal scent. Once the journey was done, Vi Et Armis is basically a strong smoky scent backed up by a woody accord which seemed to be mainly the cedar. I didn't get a pencil shavings or hamster bedding impression from the cedar, however it did have a sort of biting or sour tone which made the overall fragrance very dry and masculine.

I did a compare to Cuoium by spraying that on my wrist. Vi Et Armis impressed me as a smoky-woody scent and needed to refresh my memory if Cuoium was a smoky-leathery scent. To me, the answer was no - Cuoium was more than that - somewhat spicy and resinous as well - and that's why I like Cuoium better than Vi Et Armis. If Vi Et Armis had been more than smoke and wood, I might have liked it as an alternate to Cuoium. But it's not even close.

Performance of Vi Et Armis is spectacular. Excellent longevity, projection and sillage. I suspect it might be difficult to find many occasions to wear Vi Et Armis. I've often read reviews of fragrances that claim they only smell like a campfire. Usually, that's not true - there's more to the fragrance. I can agree that Vi Et Armis is a campfire scent and nothing else.

07/15/2025

6
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 9
Scent

kittea
65 Reviews

kittea

2

Second time's the charm

The unfortunate thing about trying fragrances in a shop is that I've only got two wrists. This is of course exactly what smelling strips are made for, and is why I really like Parfumo's distinction between reviews and statements, so I can jot down my thoughts on the smelling strip without feeling as if I'm leaving an unfair review. The end result of me doing things this way, though, is that sometimes my reviews and statements will be at odds with each other, and that's very much the case here.

On paper, Vi et Armis is liquid bacon bits, fascinating but seemingly unwearable even to the most die-hard smoke fan unless you have some reason to want to pretend you've been cooking barbecue all day. This is the perfume trying to trick you into putting it aside to go smell something else. You must persevere and put it on your skin anyway.

It's still not a fragrance for the smoke-shy, but now it smells like something a human could wear. Dark, phenolic, and tarry. A cup of black tea with the viscosity of crude oil. There is a slight underlying sweetness to it, in the way that some wood can smell sweet while it's burning. If you've ever smelled your jacket the night after a campfire, you know the scent.

I get the "A City On Fire | Imaginary Authors" comparisons, but City is a lot sweeter and tamer... I could imagine wearing it with a tailored suit, while Vi et Armis demands lumberjack flannels or leather jackets. That said, if you like one, you'll probably like the other.

01/17/2022

10
Pricing 9
Bottle 10
Sillage 10
Longevity 9
Scent

LorenzoYann
36 Reviews

LorenzoYann

1

Blood, smoking tobacco and a sea shanty

The first time I tried this perfume I was unprepared and it stongly repelled me, I seemed to smell such a potent blood note combined with tobacco that it gave me a rotting vibe. The more I was able to test this creation on other types of skin the more it turned out birch and gunpowder would be more prominent on my skin while tea and whisky would be more detectable on my relatives' skin.
After extensive testing this open up on my skin as an iron sword piercing through flesh while drying down to a beautiful whisky, tea and opium barrel sailing back.

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